resources

**References**
Hendron, John (2008). RSS for educators. Eugene, Oregon: International Society for Technology in Education.

Johnson, Doug (2009). Seven Stupid Mistakes Teachers Make with Technology. Retrieved 09-27-09, from: []

Lynne, Beth (2007). Fair Cell Phone Use in Schools: Pros and Cons of Cell Phones in Schools. Retrieved 09-27-09, from: @http://teachingtechnology.suite101.com/article.cfm/fair_cell_phone_use_in_schools

Wetzel, David R, (2008). Teacher Tube - Science Videos Support Learning. Retrieved 09-27-09, from: @http://teachertipstraining.suite101.com/article.cfm/teacher_tube_science_videos_support_teaching

Zucker, A. Transforming Schools with Technology (2008). Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

**Websites**

 * Technology in the classroom
 * [|Will Richardson, http://weblogg-ed.com/]
 * [|Classroom 2.0]
 * [|Free Technology for Teachers]
 * Power to Learn
 * Education World
 * Teacher Tube
 * Educational Websites
 * Mastering Physics [|www.masteringphysics.com]
 * Geometer’s Sketchpad [|www.dynamicgeometry.com]
 * Molecular Workbench []
 * WebQuest []
 * Beyond Books [|www.beyondbooks.com]
 * United Streaming []
 * SciLinks [|www.nsta.org/scilinks]
 * Learning community-writing [|www.fanfiction.net]
 * TakingITGlobal []
 * ThinkQuest [|www.think.com]
 * Food Force []
 * A Force More Powerful []
 * Websites providing educator support
 * Internet Classroom Assistant []
 * Wireless Generation []
 * Summary Street []
 * Assistment Project []
 * School to home communication systems
 * []
 * []
 * Teacher Development
 * []
 * []
 * Career exploration (students)
 * Career Cruising []
 * For parents who want to learn about schools
 * []
 * []
 * []

**Educational Software**
Rosetta Stone Soliloquy Reading Assistant Tom Snyder Educational Software

**Other Technologies**
A longer list of technology with examples. Page numbers listed in the examples refer to Hendron (2008).


 * 1) Class website
 * 2) Syllabus
 * 3) Homework assignments
 * 4) Links to helpful websites (physics simulations, references…)
 * 5) Class calendar
 * 6) Assignments with due dates
 * 7) Automatically sends texts/emails as reminders
 * 8) Blogs
 * 9) Students summarize or reflect on the day’s lesson (formative assessment) (p. 154) with bonus questions assigned by the teacher (to encourage the students to read it) (p. 29)
 * 10) Research notebook—searchable, shareable and multimedia-capable (p. 156)
 * 11) Creative writing (p. 166) and journalism (p. 168)
 * 12) Class discussions (p. 30)
 * 13) Home communications (p. 24) (teacher updates with day’s activities)
 * 14) Post homework assignments (p. 30)
 * 15) Links to news stories relevant to the topic
 * 16) Wikis
 * 17) School-wide information
 * 18) Curriculum (p. 43)
 * 19) Lesson plans (p. 43)
 * 20) Sign up sheets (p. 43)
 * 21) Daily announcements or attendance sheets (p. 43)
 * 22) Meeting agendas and minutes (p. 43)
 * 23) Staff development documents (p. 43)
 * 24) Handbooks and policy manuals (p. 43)
 * 25) class-specific information
 * 26) class notes and handouts (p. 43)
 * 27) class constitution (p. 188)
 * 28) resources for the class
 * 29) group projects
 * 30) anything where a report needs to be generated (can also use google docs type platform)
 * 31) creative writing (choose your own adventure) (p. 196)
 * 32) create a learning guide for younger students
 * 33) individual projects
 * 34) health log (p. 180)
 * 35) lab notebook
 * 36) portfolio of work
 * 37) podcasts, vodcasts, youtube, and teachertube
 * 38) by the students
 * 39) journalism (p. 205)
 * 40) book review (p. 211) or any kind of oral report
 * 41) end-of-unit review (p. 216)
 * 42) language learning (p. 224)
 * 43) career exploration—interviews (p. 220) or day in the life
 * 44) By the teacher
 * 45) Lectures ([])
 * 46) Home communication
 * 47) Enduring “how-to’s”
 * 48) How to format homework
 * 49) How to do something specific (e.g. steps in long division or how to diagram a sentence)
 * 50) Skype
 * 51) Interview an expert (p. 74)
 * 52) RSS feeds
 * 53) Independent study (p. 236)
 * 54) Source for occasional “our field in the news” reports by students (e.g. skimming Eureka Alerts for science discoveries)
 * 55) Cell phones
 * 56) Help students stay (and learn to be) organized—planner, calendar, reminders
 * 57) Help them learn etiquette and appropriate usage—when is it OK to use the phone, how to learn to ignore it while working on something else. Taking away the opportunity to learn responsible usage encourages underground behavior (texting with phone and hand in their backpack).
 * 58) Twitter/texting/IM
 * 59) Snapshot lesson in social studies?
 * 60) [|Concept mapping] for organizing information and ideas
 * 61) Polls and surveys
 * 62) Online Polls ([|Survey Monkey])
 * 63) Cell phone polls with instant online results ([|Poll Everywhere])
 * 64) Google suite
 * 65) google documents for collaborative writing projects
 * 66) google voice for facilitating communications, [|including some innovative ways to communicate with students]
 * 67) Virtual field trips and webquests
 * 68) Smart boards
 * 69) Online classes
 * 70) synchronous (virtual classroom where everyone is logged in at the same time)
 * 71) asynchronous (forum discussion where people can log in and contribute whenever they like)
 * 72) Social networking ([|Ning], [|Facebook])
 * 73) Social bookmarks ([|del.icio.us], [|digg], [|StumbleUpon], etc)
 * 74) General software such as MS Office